Ultimate Sacrifice Baseball Card Set
April 16, 2011 by Gary Bedingfield · 6 Comments
Of the 142 professional baseball players who lost their lives during World War II, I doubt any of them ever appeared on a baseball card. This got me thinking about how nice it would be to create cards for each of them and I have to admit I have taken my inspiration from Gary Cieradkowski’s […]
The Berkman Actuality
December 6, 2010 by Daniel Shoptaw · Leave a Comment
Regular reader(s) will remember that, last week, I wrote about the possibility that Lance Berkman would become a Cardinal.  My conclusion was that it wouldn’t happen and it didn’t work for the Cardinals. Yeah, this is why I don’t bet actual money on anything. As you know by now, the Cards came to terms with Berkman over […]
Frustration Revisited
July 28, 2010 by Daniel Shoptaw · Leave a Comment
I thought this was behind us. Whatever corner the Cardinals turned after the All-Star break, they’ve turned another one or two and seem to be back where they started from–a frustrating team that can’t get anything going.  And when the big gun has an off night, you know things aren’t going your way. I guess you […]
Exciting Times In Cardinal Nation
July 22, 2010 by Daniel Shoptaw · Leave a Comment
You know things are going good when a late-inning win to extend a lengthy winning streak is the second most talked about story today. Let’s take the game first, though, before we get into the trade rumor that popped up last night.  We’ve talked about it before, but one of the great things about this winning streak […]
Cardinal Comeback
April 27, 2010 by Daniel Shoptaw · Leave a Comment
First off, I want to say thank you to everyone who has expressed kind words over the Cardinal Blogosphere Guide.  I hope that it results in increased traffic for the blogs listed and that you can find another source of can’t-miss Cardinal writing. Perhaps it was just me, but it seems like if this was […]
Subtle Shifts
March 19, 2010 by Daniel Shoptaw · Leave a Comment
While no major news came out of Jupiter yesterday, there were a couple of things that could have an impact on the season to come. First, the Cards returned Ben Jukich to the Reds. Â For a Rule V guy, he didn’t get a lot of looks in camp, only getting two innings in one game. […]
Dealing With the “Rumor”
March 16, 2010 by Daniel Shoptaw · Leave a Comment
I guess not surprisingly, the biggest thing coming out of Cardinals camp yesterday was a Seinfeldian discussion about nothing. Look, no one took that “trade rumor” involving Albert Pujols and Ryan Howard the least bit seriously. Â No one thought that it might happen, that the teams really had talked about it, etc. Â I think most […]